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Marshallia tenuifolia Asteraceae (Composite Sunflower) family  Barbara's Buttons is also known as Marshallia. Plant is an upright, smooth to hairy perennial. Preferred habitat is pine woods, ditches and moist savannas or bogs. Distribution is throughout the Escambia region. Leaves are alternate on the stem; linear to lance-like; no teeth and no lobes. Flowers are in heads at the end of a flowering stem; bisexual (male and female in same flower); corolla is white, pink to purple. Flowers occur in early summer. Fruit is a seed which outer layer is fused to it. A close relative, M. trinervia, has oval-shaped leaves
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